User talk:RosePlantagenet
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[edit] Removing comments on talk pages
Hi, Rose, I just read your coments on AnI, and wanted to make a little comment. It's usually not a good idea to remove or otherwise edit another user's comments from a talk page, except your won. It's better to have an admin do that for you, after they have decided that it is a personal attack. Hope this helps, and if you need any more assistance, please feel free to call on me. Jeffpw 23:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for all your assistance. Yes, I will not be removing their comments again, I had just about had it with them deleting people's comments and talking down to people. It certainly does not belong on this site. I will definitly contact you in the future if I need any advise, you were a big help. RosePlantagenet 14:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Why not, when others are annoying enough to interfere with your editing? I'll go take a look at the article history myself, but you shouldn't be afraid to report somebody who seems to be editing badly. Jeffpw 15:41, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Royal Descent
Do not revert to re-add that information. That article was, prior to the removal, in a disgraceful state. I have tried to fix it by means of altering within, and you have stonewalled me. It does not matter - as it stood, it was in an appalling condition, riddled with OR, speculation, Opinion, POV, lack of references. It needs to be swept back to the minimum of proveable information, and then have sourced data readded. Wikipedia will not tolerate your proliferation of opinion and Original Research. Please see the talk page explanation of the changes, and if you want to restore information, track down citations. Michaelsanders 19:40, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
- DO NOT remove the comments of other users from your talk page. It is a breach of wikipedia etiquette. I have discussed the reversions/removals - you are the one who claimed you weren't going to discuss the issue. As for my blocks - the first was for correcting a persistent editor who kept changing a spelling of 'defence' to 'defense' in a British-convention article. The second was for complaining about another editor in an edit war. You are likely to suffer the same fate as myself in this case. Well done, and stop removing my comments. Michaelsanders 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Royal Descent. Again
Good to have been working with you, cousin - the article's looking rather better now, and if we can both work to control our tempers and work to the betterment of articles in general, we should do well.
How are you descended from the Plantagenets, anyway? Michaelsanders 19:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, in terms of intermarriage, I can hardly cast aspersions - the family of my great-great grandmother, Ann Bruce, came from the Shetlands, where everyone intermarried. Thus, I am descended from the same people several times over (in addition, my grandmother (Ann's granddaughter) and my grandfather (no traceable royal descent) are vaguely related somehow - some other ancestors came from the same benighted village in northern Wales). In terms of royal descent, my great-grandfather 14 times removed (thank you Brothers Keeper!) was James V of Scotland (Margaret Tudor's son) - I'm descended from the Earl of Orkney, his illegitimate son (by Euphemia Elphinstone), whose descent winds through most Shetland genealogy - in particular, his great-granddaughter married one of my Bruce ancestors, who was also a descendant of Euphemia by her husband, John Bruce, via her son, Laurence of Cultmalindie (who sired about 30 surviving children, thus making most people of Shetland descent his descendants). In any case, almost everyone with Shetland ancestry is descended from royalty via these connections, so it isn't particularly magnificent.
- And then there's my father's family, who until the 1900s were all Russian peasants. And are effectively impossible to trace, which is very galling. Oh well...
- On the other hand, if there's ever a massive cull of the world's population, I could be in with a chance of the Scottish throne - it depends whether Thomas Bruce of Clackmannen (the progenitor of all modern Bruces) was a legitimate son of one of Robert I's brothers, or illegitimate. And whether I would be most senior claimant (I wouldn't. Full stop.) And whether anyone (myself included) would care... Michaelsanders 19:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
